01c. 1837 ADFourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
02c. 1837 ADIf there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
03c. 1837 ADRepublicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
05c. 1837 ADNo matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
06c. 1837 ADI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
07c. 1837 ADIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
08c. 1837 ADIn regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
09c. 1837 ADI don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
10c. 1837 ADWhenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
12c. 1837 ADI have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
14c. 1837 ADin times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
15c. 1837 ADLet no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
16c. 1837 ADFolks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
17c. 1837 ADTake all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
19c. 1837 ADThe mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMSAbraham Lincoln / quote ↗
20c. 1837 ADI have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
21c. 1837 ADIt is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
22c. 1837 ADWriting, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
24c. 1837 ADThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
